Chelsea's questions

When Jackson compares hypertext to a moving vehicle does she mean it can easily be changed unlike a book which is "in search of a place of rest?"

I think that Jackson is trying to say that a hypertext can easily be changed and that a book can't. I think that a moving vehicle means it can change because when you are driving it is easy to change where you want to go and you can turn around or change your direction very easily. I think that a book is "in search of a place to rest" because once it is printed you can't do anything with it. That particular book will always be the same and it will never be able to change. Once it is printed all it can do is find a place to settle down and sit there.

Stich Bitch Questions

1: Who is Stitch Bitch?
2: Why does she use so many metaphors?
3: Why does he do a title after every paragraph?
4: What point is she trying to tell us?
5: Is she Shelly Jackson or Shelly Shelly?
6: Does she think that metaphors help people understand more?

Stitch Bitch

After reading Stitch Bitch I really didn't understand what she was talking about. I thought that she used to many metaphors for me to understand it. She doesn't really stick to one point and keep going with it. She likes to jump around and go back to points. For me this was very hard to read because i kept having to think about it after I read something.

The Ecstasy of Influence part 2

Throughout this essay Lethem talks a lot about how plagiarism is a disadvantage to writers. He thinks that when somebody re-uses somebodies work it loses some of the emotion and meaning that the original author was using when he wrote it. It does because the author who is taking something from another author doesn't know how the persons felt when they were writing it. They don't know the felling behind the writing and they might change the meaning behind what the author wanted it to mean.

"But the truth is that with artists pulling on one side and corporations pulling on the other, the loser is the collective public imagination from which we were nourished in the first place, and whose existence as the ultimate repository of our offerings makes the work worth doing in the first place."

What Lethem is trying to say with this paragraph is that with the artists on one side and corporations on the other that it is hard to make up new ideas and that it forces use to use other authors ideas to make our own work.

The Ecstasy of Influence

In Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence" Lethem talks a lot about authors using other authors work. Some people may say that he is saying that plagiarism is okay. But in my opinion i think that he is just saying that most good ideas are built of other good ideas. He thinks that these others works can be used to build off of to make a good story. I think that building off other authors idea shouldn't be seen as shameful. I think so because if people didn't use others work to inspire work, people wouldn't be able to write these good works because they wouldn't have anything to inspire them.

Mark Twain

In Mark Twain's Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 March 1878 he said "You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by." I think that that is true. If you think that what you write will be perfect the first time then you are destined to fail. You have to re-read what you write and fix the things that are wrong. You also have to make sure you don't put adjectives close to each other. Adjectives are better when they are further apart because they will be more meaningful. The same is true when your blogging. If you don't check what you write and use a lot of adjectives people are going to think that you are dumb. They are going to think that you are just some unintelligent idiot that just decided to make a blog on his computer. You have to make sure that you re-read what you write to make sure it sounds good.

AT&T Commercial

In class we watched an AT&T commercial that was about Hansel and Gretel. In the commercial Hansel and Gretel are in a city and they are dropping bread crumbs so they can kind there way home. Throughout the commercial the bread crumbs keep getting stepped on or eaten by birds. By the end they notice that all the crumbs are gone. They then take out a phone with gps and the go home. When i first watched the commercial i thought it was just another stupid commercial with no really meaning. Then we had to pick things up and ask questions which totally changed my mind. I realized that it was about how things are changing. How things like dropping bread crumbs aren't going to cut it anymore. You need to use new technology or you are just going to be lost in the world.